Animate a 4 Bar Linkage Assembly in Autodesk Inventor using Rotational and Cylindrical Joints

Autodesk Inventor Tutorial with every mouse click explained on How to Draw and Animate a 4 Bar Linkage, including drawing all parts, creating an assembly, animating the assembly, and how to make changes to part dimensions even after it’s been assembled.
This tutorial is intended for Inventor Beginners. If you are already familiar with drawing parts, you may want to skip ahead to the “Create an Assembly and Set Ground in Inventor” chapter around 7 minutes.
The Inventor assembly is made by designating ground, then using rotational joints, cylindrical joints, plane constraints, angle constraints, and using the “drive” option on an angle constraint.
TIMECODES
0:00 Create Inventor Part - Draw a Slot with Extruded Cylinders
4:27 Create Inventor Part - Edit Feature and Edit Sketch
7:45 Create an Assembly and Set Ground in Inventor
9:21 How to Create Rotational Pin Joints in Inventor
11:13 How to Create Cylindrical Joints in Inventor
14:07 How to Animate in Inventor using Drive Angle Constraints
16:29 How to Edit an Inventor Part After Creating an Assembly

[@dalerbaimukhambetov9571]

Wow, THE BEST tutorial out there! Keep it up!

[@BrianBernardEngineering]

thank you so much. I will.

[@fransiscoalvarezinski6293]

Finally, I found a video to help me animate a rather complex Parallelogram containing 12 components and 16 pivot points. Thanks.

[@BrianBernardEngineering]

You're welcome. If you need to do other types of joints besides simple rotations, I made another video covering surface-surface contact and other similar constraints th-cam.com/video/d-vF0K7hD9w/w-d-xo.html

[@keithyakouboff8755]

Good tute, well-narrated. Love the furry tail whipping around behind your mic 😁

[@BrianBernardEngineering]

Yep, thats TA Indiana. He's always helping. Couldnt do it without him.

[@widiwsyahrizal45]

As a student, I amazed about how You explain this tutorial comprehensively, with useful side tips and reason for each argument like no one else before. This inspires me about how to be great lecturer someday in a future. Thank You so much for the videos.

[@BrianBernardEngineering]

Good luck on your path to becoming a lecturer. I used to operate powerplants before i got into teaching, but am so happy to have switched, i really like this a lot.

[@adekunleadebayo5094]

Thank you Brian. you are a great teacher! Great tutorial.

[@BrianBernardEngineering]

You're welcome :)

[@dr.m.sanaullahsahar9859]

Indeed, very clear explanation. Awesome. Let me recommend your video to my students.

[@BrianBernardEngineering]

Of course, they are very welcome to watch. If you have the ability to embed youtube videos in your course's LMS, if you click the "share" button, then in the popup, you can select "embed", and that will give you text so that you can paste the video directly in your course website instead of just the link. That's how I put the videos in my course websites so they can watch it directly there.

[@coleykeesee]

thank you brian, my teacher left us with a project to construct a four bar linkage in three days without knowing what one is prior. he then left for two days and we haven't seen him since. your video will hopefully give me a passing grade. it is the end of the year. if i fail this class im afraid i wont get into college. this all rides on you brian bernard. thank you for this tutorial.
with love,
coley

[@BrianBernardEngineering]

The best strategy would of course be to pass and do really well in your grades. But as a backup plan ... apply to college now, with a transcript that only shows your grades through last semester, but not the ones for classes in progress. If they accept you now, they won't withdraw that acceptance based on new grades you get later.

[@ucheanyanwu5972]

Thanks for this 👌

[@BrianBernardEngineering]

you're welcome, I'm really glad it helped.